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Welcome to my fun little site. My name is Sheila, you may know me as Sassy Lady. I am a Chicago transplant to the Birmingham, Alabama area. I like to say I am southern by the grace of God! My blog was started to share with family and friends my love for scrapbooking and of course special moments with those around me. Being an avid scrapper I also dabble in card making as I love to remember people and their special times with a card. Click Here To Read More!

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Unless otherwise stated within the post, this is my original work or design. You are free to use any of my designs as INSPIRATION for your own personal use. My work is not for use for publication, contest, message board entries or for profit. If my designs inspire you in any way please give credit where credit is due. If you post information about my files to any message board or mail group, please direct users to this blog rather than attaching the file itself. Leave me a comment and by all means post a link to my blog. Thank you!

April 30, 2015

Good morning - Adrienne from Eagle Canyon Arts. It's always a pleasure to be a part of Sheila's talented Sassy Lady design team. Thank you, Sheila.

April's Stamp of the Month (SOTM), "Typed Note" (S1504) turned out to be a perfect match for the birthday card I wanted to make for our nephew Nicholas, a senior in college. Although computers are "de riguer" these days, the typewriter evokes a whimsical feeling of nostalgia and masculinity for this card for a "Twenty-something" fellow.

April 28, 2015

Hi everyone...It's Sonya from Sonya's Paper Trail, and do I ever love the card I'm sharing. It was a Pinterest
inspired design, but totally adapted for the colors I like. It's always good to keep an eye out for layouts you like, but then adapt the colors for your preference.

Check it out:

I
started with my Cameo and designed the basic background of the card. I
started with a standard mat in the polka dot paper, then layered three
banners in the floral print. The doily was a cut from the Silhouette
Online Store. Rather than edit it, I cut a full circle, then simply
sliced it in half with my trimmer (and used the other one to make a
second card!). The butterfly is also from the Silhouette Online Store.
I added a few glitter pearls for the body of the butterfly. The
stamped image is by PTI from the Mega Mixed Messages stamp set. I added
a Prima and a glitter brad to finish off the card. The papers were all
scraps in my bin. Scraps have never looked so pretty!

April 27, 2015

Lisa from Lisa's Craft Room here to share another project for the month. I saw this card on Dawn's site and fell in love with it. I love cards that are different and this card can be made for so many different occasions. I made it for a friend's birthday.

It starts off with card stock measured at 5 1/2" x 11". You need to cut 4 each of layers of colors of your choice, the card stock, I used blue, for the layers, I used white, measured at 2 1/8" x 4", yellow, measured at 2 3/8" x 4 1/4" and black, measured at 2 1/2" x 4 3/8".

The base of the card, score it on the landscape side, (the 11" side,) at 2 3/4", 5 1/2", and 8 1/4". Fold the card in half and put a pencil mark at the bottom of the score line to use as a guide for punching a border. I used a scallop border. Then you can fold the card, mountain and valley folds. On the bottom, the decorative label punch was used to create "feet" for the card to stand.

Then you decorate the top layer of each panel and adhere them together and then to the base and you have this darling card. I just love it. "Thanks Dawn" :)

The envelope was made on the envelope punch board, starting out with a piece of card stock measured at 9 1/4" x 9 1/4", the first score will be at 4 3/8" then you just score each corner from there. I also rounded off the corners. I stamped a cupcake and a sentiment on the envelope.

Well, there you have it, a sweet card and envelope to match. Thanks for stopping by and thanks Sheila for having me for another month :)

April 23, 2015

As many of you know, foiling is very trendy right now! A few years ago, I wanted to learn how to do this technique but the resources were very limited. Fast forward to January of this year, an easier foiling machine was introduced. In my excitement, I researched the price and was disappointed. I told myself I would save up for and hopefully catch the machine on sale. One day I was on Youtube and in my watch feed I saw a video on ways to foil by Jenny M. I watched it and excitement returned! She shared the laminator and laser printer technique and I was intrigued. I had the printer and a YourStory I just needed foil. I went to Hobby Lobby found foil and I was set…so I thought. I tried using the YourStory and it left a lot of black exposed. The results were not horrible, but not like I saw on the video. Then I used my cheap laminator and the results were much better, but not perfect. I think I may need to run the foil through twice. Anywho, here is a simple card I did using this technique.

I used a file from the Silhouette Store. I brought it on to my virtual mat and filled it with black. I sent it to my laser printer. I cut the rectangle using the Lawn Fawn Stitched die and then ran it through my laminator.

I layered a piece of foil card stock and that’s it! Not to shabby! One day I hope to get the foiling machine (it does a full 12” page beautifully). Until then, I will work to perfect this method on my laminator!

April 21, 2015

Friendship Card

This A2 card gets my vote for the easiest card I have ever made. I started with an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of patterned cardstock, cut in half width-wise.

Sentiment

The 'hello friend' sentiment was cut using the Cricut Beyond Birthdays cartridge. I shadowed it in a charcoal gray.

The dragonfly took a little bit of time. This was mostly because I was using a new die and stamp set, and tried to get too fancy with the vellum wings. I do like that they are still transparent, yet with a little bit of veining.

Inside

Since my aim was to make this attractive yet quick, I did not over-embellish the inside. I did however, print a custom message inside. This is easy to do in Word as a text box.

And while I was at it, I printed my own little logo on the flip side to appear on the back near the bottom (another text box).

Embellishments

The obvious embellishment is the dragonfly, of course. Cut twice - once from white cs, once from vellum. I trimmed off the wings from the white one and sponged the body with aqua and light green. Then I adhered the body to the vellum layer. A couple of blue rhinestones finish him off.

I chose a ribbon that coordinates with the yellow and gray in the sentiment. Before applying ribbon to the yellow bottom strip, I punched the edge with my MS lattice punch.

April 20, 2015

Hello, everyone,
this is Charlotte C.Thank you, Sheila,
for once again letting me join in on your blog.Today I want to share with you a few ways to
create curved text in Design Space with your Explore.And let me preface all this by saying there
are ways to create word art in Illustrator and Publisher and other such
programs that can be imported into Design Space, but I’m sticking with only
using Design Space and Cricut images. This first part will cut the letters out
of your card stock or vinyl in the shape you created (good for stencils).

•Insert a shape you wish the word to follow,
like a circle or oval; open the text box and type your word in the text box.

•With the
word still surrounded by its box, right click on the word, and left click
Ungroup, and now you can move each letter individually.Oh, but those pesky “handles” make it
impossible to see what you’re doing.

•So here’s
the TIP:Create two small circles;
position one above and one below the first letter you want to move and group
those three together.

•Now you can easily see your letter and can
maneuver it where you want because the “handles” are no longer in your way.

When your first
letter is in place, ungroup, and move the little circles to the next letter you
need to move, then the next, and so on, grouping, moving and ungrouping.Actually sometimes mine were ungrouping
themselves once I clicked off them.

When your entire
word is placed and spaced along your shape to your liking, delete the
shapeand the two circles you used for
placement, highlight your word and click Attach. When you click Go and your preview mat comes
up, you will see that the word will cut out in that shape, and now you’ll use
the negative of the cuts to position each letter exactly where you want them on
your project.

If you want a
single word to cut out rather than individual letters, you will have to weld
the letters together to form that word.As you’re placing your letters around your shape, position them to touch
each other.When you’re satisfied with
how it looks, delete the shape, highlight your word and click Weld.Now your word will cut in the shape you want,
like this.

Maybe you want to write
on your card stock instead of cutting out the word?When you’ve first typed your word and it’s
inside its box, in the layers tab change cut to write; change to a writing font
if you wish.Now proceed to ungroup and move
your letters as above.It will look like
this if you don’t weld the letters.

You can easily
personalize a banner/label by duplicating it and using the duplicate as a guide
to placing your word.I changed the
color of the duplicate in this example so I can see the original. Pretty cool, right?

Thank you for stopping by today.Enjoy
the spring weather we’re finally having, and if you have any questions (I know
this post was wordy), please contact me at any time.